THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER:THE SEARCH FOR HOUSTON’S LOST BOYSBy Lise Olsen True Crime / HistoryPublisher: Random HousePages: 464Publication Date: April 1, 2025 *** SYNOPSIS *** The Scientist and the Serial Killer is the gripping, upside-down detective story of a Texas forensic anthropologist named Sharon Derrick who, determined to close the cases of the […]
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LEFTBy Paul McGrath Fiction / Satire / HumorPublisher: Stoney Creek PublishingPages: 232Publication Date: March 14, 2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** A Sci-Fi Satire of Alien Espionage, Southern Charm & Chaos on Earth! First-time novelist Paul McGrath delivers a sharp, witty, and wildly entertaining sci-fi satire that asks: What if an alien held up a mirror
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Interrupting the scheduled frivolity for a bit of a rant, but I assure you the fun will start soon. Please bear with me. 🙂 Before getting to the serious matter at hand, I do have to acknowledge that my poor father is probably shaking his finger at me from Heaven for using the word “stupid”
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VANISHING INTO THE 100% DARKBy Amber Royer Cozy MysteryPublisher: Golden Tip PressPages: 288Publication Date: March 4, 2025 SYNOPSIS Bean to chocolate maker Felicity Koerber has been invited to be part of a chocolate festival in Tokyo. It’s a big deal for a Texas gal with a shop on Galveston’s historic Strand, so a whole group
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I hope it’s a Happy Monday for everyone. As to what is happening in the world, especially here in the U.S., I have no words printable in a blog post written in a family-friendly space, so I refrain, which is a good thing for my blood pressure. I need to escape and doing that with
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BENEATH THE BROKEN OAKBy Lori Altebaumer Mystery / RomancePublisher: One Thousand Hills PublishingPages: 400Publication Date: February 22, 2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Trees don’t heal. They seal. But Forester Jodee Trevaine isn’t a tree. The wounds of abandonment she’s spent years denying will be ripped open the night she witnesses a child’s abduction. The hardscrabble
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GUNBARREL HIGHWAYBy Sean Bridges Suspense / ThrillerWild Rose PressPages: 264Publication Date: November 20, 2024 *** SYNOPSIS *** Texas trophy wife Claudia Grant dies after she causes an early morning car accident. In the other vehicle, Daniel Morrison, an attorney struggling with a pending divorce and pill addiction, panics and leaves the scene. The victim’s husband,
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Today I’m sharing my review of this wonderful coming-of-age story, The Drowners, by Irish author, David Anderson. Coming on March 17, 2025 and ready for pre-order. ASIN: BODYK363NJPUBLISHER: Whipsnade PublishingPUB DATE: March 18, 2025 Your past can mold you, or deform you. For Aaron, this world is an unfathomable puzzle. Haunted by disturbing dreams, he
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In addition to writing mysteries and nonfiction, I also have been known to pen a short story or two or three, or more. Some time ago, I compiled three of those stories into a short book, The Wisdom of Ages. While I do focus on celebrating strong women in my fiction, I’ve always had a
Happy Friday – Maybe My first thought when planning to write a blog post for today was to comment on current affairs. But current affairs are so… so… so Disheartening? Ugly? Frightening? All of the above? Settling on “all of the above,” I figured my mind needed to go in a different direction. And since
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